"What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair."

-- Peter De Vries

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Despair Quotes

“My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.”

Source : "America's Most Colorful Congresswoman: Kyrsten Sinema" by Ann Friedman, www.elle.com. May 22, 2013.
“I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!”

Source : "Jodi Kantor: 'Barack Obama wouldn't be president without Michelle'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.
“Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.”
“No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.”

Source : Jessie Bernard (1975). “The future of motherhood”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.”

Source : "Fictional character: Arthur Bach". "Arthur", www.imdb.com. 1981.
“You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.”
“The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.”
“Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.”

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